Wear your train hat

As my grandchildren would say, That's Cool.

Love it.

i always wear my RR gear. Always get questions.

Elliot, I'm even more of a train nerd. I have the HSL PostWar app on my IPad and when I hear a story about childhood trains, I try to find the catalog page!

 

Never waste an opportunity to make another convert!

 

Peter

Eliot, did you tell him you're an experienced engineer too?

Now Dave...what are you trying to do, get this thread "off track"...??!!!

 

Alan

Well Alan, it's probably an experience that not even this 50 year veteran had.

I don't have a train hat. 

Alan and Dave, very funny!!

Sorry Elliot!

Mike R

Why not show your train hats

Forget about the hat, Eliot; sounds like an acute case of spontaneous foaming...

 

The guy's probably called the cops... thinking you're possibly a stocking foamer, too.

 

Tell him you were just joking...

 

 

Rick

Neither do I.

What train enthusiasts see when they wear train hats:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What the general public sees:

 

 

 

Korling kills me.

Killer Korling.

 

 

Ya know Eliot, you have to come to Cali so I can buy you a beer or two (or three).

What we see:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

What the general public sees:

 

 

 

 

The CFO picked up a package of NS employee items from the employee who was a Forum member. Among the goodies was this really nice 'official' NS cap. We've embellished it with some artifacts and if anyone makes fun of me when I'm wearing this I'll shove them onto the tracks!

There's a great little deli and bakery named Carmen's in Hazleton, PA. Last summer they invited customers to submit ideas and names for new menu items. I suggested a BLACK DIAMOND sandwich, named after the legendary Lehigh Valley train. Carmen's liked it. I donned my Iron Horse Rambles souvenir cap for a photo. The Reading Lines diamond is original. I added the others. My mother spliced a band from another souvenir cap so I could keep wearing it. I also wore it on May 25th when I rode one of those great excursions with 765 and two NS Heritage Units around Horseshoe Curve.

I still love my Thomas the Tank Engine PJs.  You know, the ones with the "footies" Can you recommend a nice hat? 

 

I'll bet they keep you warm on a cold winter night.

 

There is a Thomas store at the Strasburg Rail Road. Happy Hunting!

Your Southern pin is upside down. 10 demerits.

Peter: what is the HSL Post War App and where is it found

That's it.

You can be a good train man for thirty years.

But one inappropriate relationship with a hat and  . . . . .

I will never understand why the makers of such pins cannot move the pin up a bit so gravity will keep them right side up. Such a simple solution that it boggles the mind they do not do it.

That is actually a sign of distress...lamenting one of the great fallen flags. 

And I thought that it had been done deliberately so that Dave Allen could read it. 

Everyone knows how I feel about the Santa Fe Super Chief, but it won't hurt to remind folks.

You could try these.

 

 

 

 

In my 1/48th scale world that flag has yet to fall.

"Mergers? We don't need no stinkin' mergers!"

Got the coveralls last Christmas, hat will be here this Christmas.

Brent

You've, forced me hand . . . . . 

 

 

Except for National holidays when I will wear trainware as a show of historical patriotism,  around these parts (just across 'the River' from you) wearing train ware is a great way to be dismissed at the local home improvement center. If I'm looking for prompt & effective attention at Loews or Tractor Supply I will put on Western garb. A Stetson at the local Walmart however might invite a search for citizenship papers. Of course it is well known that trainwear  at train show/meets will probably invite a 25% increase in asking prices. I find these costume-social/commercial dynamics here in the Northeast frankly amusing and I'm usually quite willing to exploit this sort of regional type casting folly.

Why are you wearing gloves? The Fireman's controls certainly aren't hot.

Eliot - was this shot just before the 'detour'?

Don't have any photos Mike but around here we regularly see (real) freight cars with the proud SOUTHERN lettering blazened across them in (faded) white!

Wow.....An engineer from the Old Put who ran steam!!! Did you get his name? I wonder if he knows Jimmy Morgia.

 

Oh and by the way.....there's my train hat in my avatar!

Jack (Hot Water)

 

I'm wearing gloves because I was a poseur . . . . 

I didn't know any better.

I figured, since I had no idea what I was doing, as the train passed the onlookers, someone would look at the #765 and say, "Mom, look at that clown in the fireman's seat."

 

Eliot

I don't wear hats of any kind, messes up my hair(still have enough for that to happen). Except when shoveling snow. I do collect them though.

Nicole, it looked perfectly fine to me.

You want train hats???????